YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, has told content moderators to favour 'freedom of expression' over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down. — MATT CHASE/The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO: For years, YouTube has removed videos with derogatory slurs, misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines and election falsehoods, saying the content violated the platform’s rules.
But since US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, YouTube has encouraged its content moderators to leave up videos with content that may break the platform’s rules rather than remove them, as long as the videos are considered to be in the public interest. Those would include discussions of political, social and cultural issues.
